We use the mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics theory to derive the general kinetic
equation of a system in the presence of potential barriers. The result is applied to a …

Concepts of everyday use such as energy, heat, and temperature have acquired a precise
meaning after the development of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics provides the basis for …

The main objective of this review is to facilitate a deeper understanding of thermal inertia
principles and to analyze its impacts on the evaluation of reaction kinetics. At first, the …

The dynamical equation for magnetization has been reconsidered by enlarging the phase
space of the ferromagnetic degrees of freedom to the angular momentum. The generalized …

The gyromagnetic relation—that is, the proportionality between the angular momentum L→
and the magnetization M→—is evidence of the intimate connections between the magnetic …

The general concept of temperature is thermodynamically defined in equilibrium somehow
predictable even for non-equilibrium; however, it presents some still controversial aspects …

We study the effect of a fourth-order derivative term in the diffusion of Brownian particles
confined to a narrow 2D channel whose longitudinal coordinate is larger than the …

The development of instrumentation has allowed thermal analysis to become a widely used
method not only in calorimetry but also in the field of non-isothermal kinetics that, however …

We extend the multiple time scales formalism originally introduced for the Fokker–Planck
equation by Wycoff and Balazs (Physica A 146 (1987) 175) to the case of simple shear flow …

We introduce a general formalism to analyze nucleation phenomena in inhomogeneous
media which considers the influence of the metastable phase, which is treated as a heat …